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Room in convent used as office for genetic matching

Content Note: A soldier named Derby inspects the computers and other equipment used to genetically match young German couples. The equipment was…

Computer used to genetically match German couples

Content Note: An International computer used to make appropriate genetic matches between young German couples. It was housed in a Catholic school in…

"E.T.O. [European Theater of Operations] venison before the billets"

Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Soldiers stand around a deer carcass hanging from a pole between two trees.

Bunker at the firing range used during training in England

Content Note: Soldiers used Allied and German weapons to learn to distinguish the weapons used by the enemy. Three soldiers stand on top of the hill…

Bridge "built by A Company 1270th Engineer Combat Battalion and 678 Engineer LE Company. "

Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse of photograph. Additional caption text: "Nuremberg, Germany, April 27, 1945. Built By A Company 1270th…

"A bridge under a bridge. Night and day we build them."

Content Note: Caption from text on the reverse. Soldiers building a fixed wooden bridge under a temporary Bailey bridge at night.

"Building bridge under bridge"

Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Side view of a fixed wooden bridge being constructed under a temporary Bailey bridge.

View of construction of a fixed wooden bridge from the top of a double Bailey bridge

Content Note: View of the construction of the abuttment for a fixed wooden bridge from the top of the temporary double Bailey bridge it will replace. …

Double Bailey bridge over a river, construction of a fixed wooden bridge next to it

Content Note: Soldiers build a fixed wooden bridge alongside the temporary Bailey bridge over a river. (The construction is in the foreground and the…

Jones and Dennis Wile in front of darkroom tent

Content Note: Jones and Wile squat behind camp stove in front of darkroom tent in the woods. They had just crossed the Rhine River. Wile is holding…